Health, human rights and mobilization of resources for health

Bibliographic Data

ID19517201
AuthorsReidar K Lie (0000-0002-5734-5777, National Institutes of Health, corresponding author)
Year2004
Volume4
Issue1
Pages4-4
Publication date2004-10-08
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueBMC International Health and Human Rights (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1472-698X • E-ISSN: 1472-698X
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1186/1472-698x-4-4
PMID15473899
PMCIDPMC524497
OpenAlexW1529948580
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited4

BACKGROUND: There has been an increased interest in the role of a human rights framework to mobilize resources for health. DISCUSSION: This paper argues that the human rights framework does provide us with an appropriate understanding of what values should guide a nation's health policy, and a potentially powerful means of moving the health agenda forward. It also, however, argues that appeals to human rights may not necessarily be effective at mobilizing resources for specific health problems one might want to do something about. Specifically, it is not possible to argue that a particular allocation of scarce health care resources should be changed to a different allocation, benefiting other groups. Lack of access to health care services by some people only shows that something has to be done, but not what should be done. SUMMARY: The somewhat weak claim identified above together with the obligation to realize progressively a right to health can be used to mobilize resources for health

Economics · Health care · Human rights · International health · Law and economics · Obligation · Political science · Public health · Public relations · Right to health · Scarcity · Sociology · Global Maternal and Child Health · Human Rights and Development · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Health Policy

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